Device for attaching roofing.



DEVICE FOR ATTAOHING ROOFING.

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 20, 1904.

P. S. HOWARD.

PATENTED JAN. 3, 1905.

Patented January 3, 1905.

UNTTED STATES PATENT FFICE.

FRANK S. HOWARD, OF LOMBARD, ILLINOIS.

DEVICE FOR ATTACHING ROOFING.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 7'7 8,863, datedJanuary 3, 1905.

Application filed August 20, 1904- Serial No. 221,476.

To (in/,6 w/mm, it may concern.-

Be it known that I, FRANK S. HOWARD, residing at Lombard,in the countyof Dupage, in the State of Illinois, have invented a certain new anduseful Improvement in Devices for Attaching Flexible Material to RoofsandSides of Buildings, of which the following is a full, clear, andexact description.

The purpose of my invention isto provide a simple, convenient, andeconomical device for fastening felt, paper, or other flexible materialto the sheathing on roofs and sides of buildings and to reduce thenumber of nails required to be handled and driven, thereby reducing theexpense of the materials used and facilitating the rapid and economicalprosecution of the work required, and is particularly an improvement onthe device and invention shown and described in Letters Patent of theUnited States N 0.7 57 ,193, dated April 12, 1904, issued to me.

This invention is especially adapted for use in sections of a foot moreor less in length.

My invention consists in converting one end of each section of saiddevice, being one of the loops designed in the Letters Patent abovementioned to receive nails, itself into a nail or brad by sharpening theextreme end thereof to a point for driving and bending the material ofwhich the binder is made about an inch from the point into an archperpendicularly to the plane of the surface to which the device isapplied sufficient in diameter to overarch its own thickness andextending the same at a tangent perpendicular to the plane of saidsurface, as shown.

In the drawings like numerals indicate like parts.

Figure l is a plan view of my improved de- I vice. Fig. 2 is a side viewof the same.

3 3 are convolutions in the material of which the device is made. 4 4are loops in the same adapted to receive nails to fasten the device inplace.

5 is a portion of the device formed and adapted to serve as a nail inapplying the same, sharpened at the point 6 for that purpose.

7 is an elevation or arch adapted to overarch and accommodate the outermember of the loop 4.

The convolutions 3 3 may be an inch (more or less) in length and areadapted to increase the width and strength of the binder. They may be ofany desired number, but in any event so arranged that one convolution,preferably the middle one, shall be formed in a loop 4, adapted toreceive a nail for fastening the device at a point between the two ends.They are not essential to the merits of this invention and may bedispensed with, in which case a simple loop for receiving a nail may besubstituted. The arch 7 is formed in a plane perpendicular to the planeof the surface to which the device is. to be attached and of sufficientdiameter and adapted to overarch and accommodate the thickness of thematerial of which the device is made-that is to say, to overarch theouter member of the loop 4 and allow the extension 5 to be driventhrough said loop of an adjoining section and bind it firmly to theroofing material to be held in place, 5 is a nail or brad formed as anextension of the arch 7 at a tangent perpendicular to the surface towhich the binder is to be attached and may be of any desired length asmay be requird by the thickness of the roofing material, ordinarily fromone-half inch to one inch, sharpened at the point 6 to serve for drivingas a nail or brad.

In applying this improved device the extension or nail 5 of the sectionfirst applied is driven at the desired point of starting, the middle ofthe section is then fastened in place by driving a nail through the loop4 and drawing the middle of the section firmly down on the materialbeneath, then the extension or nail 5 of the next section is driventhrough the loop 4 of the first section, and so on, each succeedingsection supplying the brad or nail which fastens the adjoining end ofthe preceding section. The last section is of course fastened in itsplace by an ordinary nail driven through the loop 4.

By this device only one nail separate from the device itself is used ineach section (ex:

cept the last one used) instead of three, as required by former devices,and time, labor, and material are all reduced.

I claim 1. A binder of wire or other suitable material, curved in aplane perpendicular to the plane of the roof or other surface to whichit may be applied, having a loop between the ends thereof formed in aplane parallel to the plane of said surface, adapted to receive a nail,and having one end formed into a nail perpendicular to the plane of saidsurface, and the other end formed into a loop in a plane parallel to theplane of said surface and adapted to receive such a nail as the one soformed at the first end, substantially as shown and described.

formed into a loop adapted to receive such a nail as the one lastmentioned, substantially as shown and described.

In testimony that I claim the foregoing as myinvention I hereto afi iXmy signature this 28th day of July, A. D. 1904.

FRANK S. HOWARD.

In presence of-- I GERTRU E L. 'NEFF, SAML. J. LUMBARD.

